Of CUBISM, HORSES and CHARMS

"Something on the way to... 

Even though there isn't any direct witness record of the event, it's now become an indisputable truth."

 

Cubism has been an exeptional art movement that has changed forever the way we look at things. It's been a transformation that has influenced design architecture, graphics ever since. It's also made us think of ourselves under a different angle. Cubism just happened unexpectedly when Europe opened its eyes on Africa and stopped looking down to it.
Trying new things can be fun and makes one's life more entertaining. 

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Original painting: 20x20cm acrylic and oil on canvas 

First displayed at my exhibition 'Equilibrium' at ANADEMA

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HAPPY YEAR of the HORSE! - 新年快樂！

CHINESE NEW YEAR 2014
"I go that way!"
"I go the other way!"
"Oh... are you sure about it?"
"Indeed as sure as you are."
"I see. Well, I am pleased to have met you."
"My sentiment exactly. Good bye my friend!"
"Till we meet again, see you and...HAPPY YEAR of THE HORSE!"

Original painting: Ex æquo - 平分秋色 (2013)
Acrylic and oil on canvas - 100x70cm (39.37x27.56")

This painting is now on display in my exhibition 'EQUILIBRI' at Anadema Hair Stylists' in Milano
www.anadema.com

EQUILIBRIUM (7)

Creativity is a path to freedom

Do you remember that day in 1972 when the San Francisco skyline changed forever (so to speak) when the Transamerica Pyramid was completed?

They say that a sense of serene fulfillment grabbed the hearts of everyone and that for a day, a smile was the expression that everyone wore on their faces. These combined together into a gigantic smile that rose up for just a moment to the very top of the skyscraper's pinnacle. It was one of those warm evenings when everyone feels at peace with oneself and the universe and forgetful of every day's toiling.

No pictures were taken, no article was written on the press, no governmental statement was issued.

At the end of the day, what was left was a mere feeling, a subdued sensation of calm and hope and, deep within the hearts of those who witnessed the event, the certainty that the impossible, no matter how unbelievable that may be, is just a few millimeters away from common sense.

Original painting: 'EQUILIBRIUM (7)' - Acrylic and oil on 20x20cm canvas

Also this painting is included in the exhibition 'EQUILIBRI', cured by Gianluca Veltri, now on display  at Anadema Hair Stylists in Milano www.anadema.com

All artworks displayed here on this blog are for sale. Reproductions are available on demand. It's possible to commission artwork. Please contact me for any queries. 

PRESENT IN THE BALANCE (a diptych) - 2013

Present is the period of time unequivocally left in the narrow space between past and future.

Equilibrium, the exhibition cured by Gianluca Veltri at ANADEMA Hair Stylists' in Milan (www.anadema.com) is going on with the help of its main character, the horse. Here's one I met the other day in Piazza del Duomo, while on my way to class at IED's. We exchanged polite greetings and parted. They told me the gentle steed is here to report about our present-day illusions for a newspaper of unknown denomination.
To anyone who might send me a copy of such articles would go my utter respect and appreciation.

Original painting: 'Present in the balance' - Acrylic and oil on two 20x20cm canvasses

All artworks displayed here are for sale. Reproductions are available on demand. It's possible to commission artwork. Please contact me for any queries.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE

An animation created for the opening of my 'EQUILIBRI' exhibition cured by Gianluca Veltri, now on display at ANADEMA Hair Cuts in Milano.
Thanks to Antonio Cova for the video editing  http://www.combobros.net/,
Antonello Brogna for the great electric guitar works and Leo for his violin 'braking'.

The HORSE-TREE

Everyone knows that money doesn't grow on trees, but horses sometimes do.

Yet not so many amongst us pay the attention that such an interesting phenomenon would deserve.

Size 尺寸 20x20cm (7.9x7.9")

Acrylic and oil on canvas 壓克力顏料,油畫顏料,畫布

 
This painting is now on display in the exhibition 'EQUILIBRIUM' at ANADEMA Hair Stylists Milano - C'so Lodi 1 until February 2014.

EQUILIBRIUM - EXHIBITION at ANADEMA'S, MILAN

A new exhibition at Anadema, the hairstylists Kingdom in Milan.
This new exhibition "Equilibrium" includes paintings related to the horse character and the interesting associations between its Latin name 'Equus' and all the other words including the letters 'EQU'.

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 12 - DIME

„Up to me, long hair has finally come back: its elegance from another era, its suspiciously retro modernity makes it ideal for the new. The woman who wears

it wisely, I find her transgressive to the grade of the most extreme conformism.“

Biagia X

„Per quanto mi riguarda, il capello lungo ha fatto finalmente ritorno: la sua eleganza di un’altra epoca, la sua modernità in sospetto di retrò lo rende ideale per il nuovo. La donna che sapientemente lo sfoggia, la trovo trasgressiva fino al conformismo più estremo.“

Gian Biagia Perruchetti in arte Biagia X

This is the last painting in the 12-piece series "Occasional Dimorphisms" no longer on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan because today it's the vernissage of Stefano Misesti and Beni Chu's exhibition "UNA LINEA TRA ESTREMO ORIENTE E MEDITERRANEO (A LINE BETWEEN THE FAR EAST AND THE MEDITERRANEAN"

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 11 - TREND

„He’s the ‘manifesto’ man: a radical appearance, that’s hiding an ascetic inspiration, essential, in practice equivalent to a secular Franciscan. Just one quirk: discreet glasses that never disclose his eyes. He’s an urban explorer of the future that’s already present, in short, the New Man.“

Philipja Van Loche

„E’ l’uomo manifesto, un’apparenza radicale, ma che nasconde un afflato ascetico, essenziale, in pratica equivalente a un francescanesimo laico. Un unico vezzo: occhiali di discreti che mai disvelano lo sguardo. È un esploratore urbano del futuro già presente, insomma l’Uomo Nuovo.“

Filippa Lo Cicero in arte Philipja Van Loche

Also this painting is included in the so far 12-piece series "Occasional Dimorphisms" still on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 10 - KHEI!

„Oh yeah, if on one side sparrows are disappearing from our cities, on the other hand one feels the unquenchable thirst of return to Mother Nature, you know? That’s why these hairstyles are becoming like, you know, bushes or cozy nests, something our grandmas already were familiar with and I have rediscovered now. As a matter of fact, the hairstyle can be worn year-long or seasonal, migrations you know?...It saves on shampoo, too“

Calup Bronson

„Eh sì, se da un lato spariscono i passeri nelle città, dall’altra parte si sente sempre più l’esigenza di unirsi a Madre natura, no? Ecco quindi che le chiome divengono cespugli o nidi accoglienti, cosa che le nostre nonne già sapevano e che qui ho riscoperto. Poi il taglio può essere permanente o stagionale, sa le migrazioni...“

Calup Bronson

The tenth painting included in the so far 12-piece series "Occasional Dimorphisms" still on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 9 - HIP

„The key word is and must always be practicability. My woman? Look, my woman is emancipated and knows what she wants. Gone are the days of romance and sex objects. She now wants to enjoy her freedom and to be able to show it in a way that her grandmother and mother were not allowed to. And the hairdo, in my opinion, is synonymous with freedom, I think that’s clear.“

Vivette

„La parola d’ordine è e dev’essere sempre la praticità. La mia donna? Guardi, la mia donna è emancipata e sa quello che vuole. Sono finiti i tempi del romanticismo e della donna oggetto. La donna ora vuol godere della sua libertà e di poterla manifestare come a sua nonna e a sua madre non era permesso. E il capello, per me, è sinonimo di libertà, mi sembra evidente.“

Vivette

One more painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 8 - OOPS

„I have always been a staunch supporter of improvisation. The best haircut can not be decided beforehand, absolutely! Planning is the new blasphemy. One starts and expects the inspiration that comes from the error, like that time I slid the razor, you know what a mess, and the boys clean up all that blood? But then again, the haircut became a cover for Vogue. I don’t know if you see what I’m saying...“

Renzo Giano

„Da sempre sono un convinto sostenitore dell’improvvisazione. Il taglio migliore non può essere deciso a priori, assolutamente! La pianificazione è la nuova bestemmia. Si parte e si aspetta l’ispirazione che nasce dall’errore, come quella volta che mi e’ partito il rasoio, sai che lavoro, i ragazzi, pulire tutto quel sangue? Però dopo, quel taglio ha fatto la copertina di Vogue. Non so se mi capisce...“

Renzo Giano

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

 

Another painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 7 - POSH

„La mia donna oggi può e deve potev sceglieve di espvimevsi con la sua gvande fovza e che coi capelli funghi, può vaggiungeve la sintesi uvbana di una cultuva vuvale che si auspica da tempo e che qui può tvovave il suo più libevo sfogo, no? Ma guavdiamoci intovno, che sosa vediamo se non un gvan vitovno alla natuva? “

Gianmartìn Bù 

„My woman today can and must be able to expvess hevself with hev gveat stvenght and with hev mushvoom haiv, can veach an uvban synthesis of a vuval cultuve fovetold fov a long time and that heev may find its vent, vight? Let’s look avound, what do we see but a gveat vetuvn to natuve? “

Gianmartìn Bù

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic on canvas

 

Another painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 6 - LUSH

„Well, look: it is obvious that the problem is not so much in the effect as much in the simplicity of the hair. If one doesn’t get this, one loses sight of the meaning of the question, eh! I ask you, what hair is for if not to express ideas? My woman is a woman ... she’s plenty of ideas. And she knows it.“

Brogio Quaglia

„Ma, guardi che è ovvio che il problema non stia tanto nell’effetto quanto nella naturalezza del capello. Se non lo si capisce, si perde di vista il senso della questione, eh! Ma, mi dica lei, a cosa servono dei capelli se non a manifestare idee? La mia donna è una donna... è piena di idee. E lei lo sa.“

Brogio Quaglia

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic on canvas

Another painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 5 - TOP

„Indeed today’s man no longer accepts to compromise. He wear his hair with a cut that wants to be extreme, an assertiveness that decidedly breaks with stereotypes, an absolute certainty in a world of movements where the denial of a truth is itself its most strenuous assertion. And this, I reckon to be an absolute obviousness...“
Garbanzo

„Certamente l’ uomo oggi non accetta più il compromesso. Il capello lo porta con un taglio che vuole essere estremo, un affermazione di sè che rompe decisamente con gli stereotipi, una certezza assoluta in un mondo di movimenti dove la negazione di una verità ne è al tempo stesso la sua più strenua affermazione. E questo mi sembra di un’ovvietà assoluta...“

Garbanzo

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

Another painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 4 - GLAM

„Ah, j’aime beacoup la nature et ses formes, oui? Je pense que plus les cheveux sont naturels, plus la femme est libre, n’est-ce pas? Je suis très sûr de ce que, perbaccó...“
Gianrené Raspazzolla

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

Another painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 3 - POP!

„...ma e’ ovvio, il capello dev’essere morbido. Non credo che il volume sia importante, quanto la forma. Il capello è il mio marmo, la mia materia prima. La donna dinamica che porta il capello soffice in tutta sicurezza non deve subire neanche il tragico obbligo del casco, che tutto cela e che nulla restituisce, dolore e tristezza della donna dinamica...“

Helaynee Khhan

„Hair is my marble, ya know? My philosphy is make it simple, easy to wear and as inconspicuous as possible. Take it or leave it, period. I want no fuss, I want my hair to show independence and groove, that’s what I mean, ya know? Yeah, ciao, posh is dead!...“

Elena Rossi alias Helaynee Khhan

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

Another painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 2 - ICE!

„Ziamo qvi molto al di là de l’idea di sctile. Qvelo che abiamo qvi è la dona nuofa, zì? Una nuofa dona che è zenzible, che à il potere und è trafolgente. Gvarda essa, non è trafolgente con qveli colpi di luce, qvele mesh? Ah, zì!“

Rutger Kreuzerschaft

„Vee arr farr beyond ze idea off shtyle heer. Vatt vee haf is a neue Vomann, ja? A new Vomann zet is sensibol, empovering und ofervelming. Look at herr, isn’t she ofervelming vith zose ilights, zose biutiful meshes? Ach so!“

Rutger Kreuzerschaft

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

Another painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS 1 - CHIC

„Una leggiadra acconciatura a multicovone, che unisce idealmente oriente a occidente con un’ambizione di capegli che celan sì l’occhi, ma donano evidenza a ciò che di più femmineo non v’è, la bocca che chiusa giammai si manifesti.“

Marq Pax

„A lovely multi-sheafed hairstyle, which ideally links East to West with an ambition of hair that does hide the eyes, but gives evidence to what is most feminine, her mouth that Never closed it must be.“

Marq Pax

30x80cm (12X32")

acrylic and oil on canvas

A painting included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan

DIMORFISMI OCCASIONALI - OCCASIONAL DIMORPHISMS

Oggi si inaugura la nuova mostra questa volta dedicata a un tema non scottante.

Grand Opening today for an exhibition on a not-hot topic.

Introduzione

Da quando l’uomo è uomo e soprattutto da quando la donna è donna...[] E in questa mostra possiamo cogliere le intuizioni dei grandi nel campo, 12 tagli per altrettanti apostoli della tendenza, filosofi del pettine e atleti dello shampo, da Marq Pax a Vivette, da Raspazzolla a Biagia X, i quali attraverso le opere del Rui esprimono i loro lati migliori e il pensiero che li muove e che non può che colmarci di sana meraviglia.

Tanio Boccia

Ever since man is man and especially since a woman is a woman ...[] And in this exhibition we can grasp the insights of the Great in this field, 12 haircuts for as many apostles of the trend, philosophers of the comb and shampoo athletes, from Marq Pax to Vivette, from Raspazzolla to Biagia X, who through Rui's works express their best sides and the thoughts that move them, and that can only fill us with a healthy wonder.
Tanio Boccia

A series of paintings included in the series "Occasional Dimorphisms" now on display at Anadema - C.so Lodi, 1 - Milan